diff --git a/src/engine/external/.clang-tidy b/src/engine/external/.clang-tidy
index fbc96dc1a..d550bc98a 100644
--- a/src/engine/external/.clang-tidy
+++ b/src/engine/external/.clang-tidy
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
 # Need at least one check, otherwise clang-tidy fails, use one that can't
 # happen in our code since we don't use OpenMP API.
-Checks: openmp-exception-escape
+Checks: '-*,openmp-exception-escape'